While wild ducks still consume plants during the warming season, there’s a heavier reliance on animal-based protein (bugs, in ...

In the late summer of 2023, thick stands of wild rice stood tall and shimmered gold in some of Lac du Flambeau’s lakes. The ...

This photo shows black-bellied whistling ducks in Louisiana ... flocking by the thousands to dig up rice fields after farmers till soil and plant seeds. They usually feed at night, making ...

Rice-duck farming is the polycultural practice of raising ducks and rice on the same land. It has existed in different forms for centuries in Asian countries including China, Indonesia, and the ...

Wild rice seeds float on the St. Louis River shortly after being thrown by Conservation Corps workers in Duluth. Three tribes in northern Minnesota report a late start in this year’s wild rice ...

or sold to a new harvester as seed for a lower price than they’d get from a processing plant. Add to that the fact that the average Canadian wild-rice harvester is 60 to 70 years old ...

It will come as no surprise, then, when I mention that Native Americans who lived here in days of old used to harvest the seeds of wild sunflower plants. It was an important food source. The rub to ...

15.5 x 21.5 in. (39.4 x 54.6 cm.) ...

To make the duck, preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6. Season the duck breast with salt and black pepper and heat a little oil in a ovenproof frying pan, then add the duck skin side down and ...